HeyJaredJenny’s Substack - Let's art together
Join me as I share a drawing a week to rekindle the joy of creating. Includes random musings on inspiration, motivation and how to keep pouring from your creative cup even when it feels like there's a hole in it.
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You are a part of me. (opens the original)
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Hello, friend!Today I am thinking of all the people who are far from me. Friends and family and people I only know through the internet but love. And people who have passed but are still with me. And people who were gone before I was even born, but who helped shape me through their writing and art and ephemera they left behind. I’m thinking of all the people who’ve shaped me in big and small ways, and about how they are never truly gone. And that might explain my drawing for this week (which Pur
Lessons from Purrrsy Bysshe Shelley (The cat. Not the poet.) (opens the original)
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hello, friend!Right now I have a small orange kitten on my lap so I (legally) cannot move because this is the law of small orange cats. An hour ago I was finishing this sketch and Purrrrsy was chasing Dorothy Barker across the couch and jumped on my pen three different times, each time causing some errant line I could not erase. I set my camera up to video him doing it because at this point it was clearly on purpose and he looked at me and innocently curled up on my lap as if he had been perfect
Just stuck in the mazes (opens the original)
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Hello, friend!Sometimes when I’m feeling exceptionally untalented (but still need to draw to keep my hands from destroying myself) I will pick a shape and draw it over and over. This week it was spirals. And they became clouds or puffy hydrangeas or snowballs, depending on which way I looked at them. But mostly they looked a little like a maze…which feels very fitting because I’m still a bit stuck in this depression that is lifting so very slowly.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href
Apparently there is even more wrong with me than expected, but I’m fine with it. (opens the original)
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Hello, friend!I’m still pulling myself out of the morass of this latest depression and every day feels a little better (KNOCK ON ALL THE WOOD) but still I have days when I feel like I’m trapped in quicksand of the brain. I wanted to draw a collection of spiderwebs to illustrate this, but turns out I am not good at making spiderwebs, which is a little bit insulting, because as my father once said:"You don't have to go to some special private school to be an artist. Just look at the intricate beau
But seriously, don’t pick them up. (opens the original)
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Friend!This week I was working on a drawing that I got really wrong and then I doubled down to try to make it work and in the end I spent so many hours on a piece that makes me go, “Huh. What even is this?” And so I decided to put it down for a bit and instead I made a quick little drawing of an alligator I saw recently. Alligators are always extra terrifying to me (because I have that phobia of things hiding underwater) but then I saw a video of an alligator just floating around in the most awk
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